So how is it going to be built and where?

The construction of the new Triple-A baseball stadium is scheduled to be built where city hall currently stands; however the construction of this stadium is projected to cost $50 million. Mayor John Cook stated that city council is “asking voters to approve a way to pay for the ballpark and not whether the city should build it” (Ramirez, 2012), declaring that the ballpark is coming to El Paso regardless. Cook suggested increasingthe rate of hotel taxes by 2% so that visitors to the city of El Paso would be paying for the stadium rather than the city’s residents. Unfortunately, voters said no in which John Cook said the voters, "are saying we would rather pay for it ourselves” (Ramirez, 2012).City council came to an agreement with Union Pacific Railroad on a contract containing the early engineering services the stadium will need. As the stadium is going to be built close to some of Union Pacific’s closest tracks, Union Pacific has asked to approve of all the design, construction and safety plans. The planned construction is scheduled to move ahead with “demolition of City Hall to build the stadium expected to occur by the end of March 2013” (Flores, 2012) so that the stadium is scheduled to open in April of 2014. With these restrictions set in place, the city has to pay Union Pacific workers to view and approve blueprints and agreed to pay the company $213,000.

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